Pappu’s Path of Prudence!!

06 February 2023, Patna: Mr. Pappu Kumar is 28 years old and lives with his wife and two children at Lohanipur slum locality in Patna. He belongs to SC community, hails from a poor socio-economic family background and migrated from his village in North Bihar. In Patna, he has been settled at his In-laws’ place. During childhood, Pappu became polio stricken and can’t walk properly.

In course of a survey under the programme of Community Based Inclusive Development and Rehabilitation of PwDs by NBJK with support of BAJAJ FINSERV, the programme team has identified Pappu. When asked about his aspirations, he expressed willingness to earn and to support his family.

As per his interest, the programme team has linked Pappu with a local Betel Shop. He worked there for three months as a trainee and learnt some basic skills to run such a shop. This development has made him more confident.

To make Pappu’s life comparatively easy, he has been provided a Tricycle under the programme. When he decided to start own shop, the programme team has encouraged him with a small monetary support and ensured his Tricycle as modified one to go well like a Mobile Betel Shop.

Now Pappu opens up his mobile shop daily, moves from one place to another to find customers, stores daily use items and making sincere efforts to live with dignity. He doesn’t want to be a burden and wishes to lead an independent life. He thanks the programme team for such transformation; he passed through and determined to draw a line.

Pappu’s shop has been inaugurated by a team from Bajaj Finserv. The team members have suggested him to install QR code based payment facility for customers as it’s easy, safe and trendy. Pappu greeted the idea and will do the same very soon.

She Overcomes Challenges!

04 February 2023, Patna: Khushboo Kumari was born at Rampur slum of Patna, belongs to a poor OBC family and recently completed her 24 years. She is a physically challenged youth but struggler and did graduation from Patna University despite difficulties.

In a dreadful incident, Khushboo has lost her right hand at the age of 5 only. She was playing in a nearby ground and opened an unclaimed Tiffin Box out of curiosity. That was a Tiffin Bomb actually and exploded with a great loss to the child Khushboo.

Khushboo has learnt to do her daily activities with left hand only and never became dependent to others. She thanks her parents those motivated her to live an independent life. Her father Shri Om Prakash Mahto is no more and elder sister got married. Khushboo lives with her mother and a younger brother who is enrolled at a local Govt school.

When Bajaj Finserv supported Community Based Inclusive Development & Rehabilitation of PwDs Programme by NBJK has promoted a DPO at Rampur Slum, Khushboo has joined the body as an active member.

During meetings of the DPO, the programme team has noticed her as she used to maintain minutes register very promptly, grasping contents sharply, compassionate and with traits of leadership. Considering her qualities, the programme manager has instructed concerned CBR worker to observe Khushboo as how she spends her spare time etc.

Soon a request message from Khushboo reached to the programme office through the CBR worker that Khushboo is in need of any job with this programme and seeks some monetary support to sustain her family.

The programme team has discussed the issue and consulted higher authorities over Khushboo’s problem. After getting nod, it decided to facilitate Khushboo and she has been provided assistive devices to improve her ADLs. Also she got some basic orientation and has been appointed as a CBR Worker with the programme. Besides this, her mother is linked with the Programme’s Income Generation Activities and now she runs an Egg Shop near her place. Khushboo has availed small seed money to initiate this endeavor.

Khushboo works hard. In daytime, she performs her duty as a CBR worker and at evening she joins her mother at the egg shop. She assists to deal with the customers and contributes a lot to raise her family income.

A physically challenged but mentally strong girl shoulders a duel responsibility well!

RCCs’ Children on Educational Tour

02 February 2023, Hazaribagh: Educational tours are being organized for the girl children of Remedial Coaching Centres in Sadar, Churchu and Daru blocks of Hazaribagh district by NBJK under Young India project with support from UTI Mutual Fund.

Today the girl students of RCC located at Turanw village of Sadar Block have visited Birsa Biological Park and Ranchi Aquarium of Ormanjhi (Ranchi) to get information about various animals and plants.

In these educational tours began last month, a total of 489 girl students from 19 RCCs have ensured their participation in four groups along with their respective teachers and enriched their knowledge by observing natural and historical places like Birsa Biological Park, Fish House, Hundru Waterfall, Patratu Dam, Parasnath, Rajgir, Nalanda, Bodhgaya etc.

Mr. Parvez Alam (Supervisor, RCCs) says that such activities prove helpful in the mental development of children and soon all enrolled girl students at remaining RCCs will get chance to visit such places.

It’s significant that through YIP, NBJK conducts 30 Remedial Coaching Centers at 29 villages and provides free tuition facility for the subjects like Mathematics, Science and English to around 1000 school girls of classes VIII, IX & X.

Certificate of Appreciation to LNJP Eye Hospital-Kajha

01 February 2023, Gaya: NBJK run LokNayak JayPrakash Eye Hospital, Kajha (Wazirganj, Gaya) has received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Central Government’s Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and Bihar State Swasthya Suraksha Samiti, Govt of Bihar.

This Certificate is awarded to LNJPEH, Kajha for exemplary performance under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana as it provided proper treatment to eye patients and restored eyesight to Cataract suffering people. The eye hospital has shown a remarkable result both quality and quantity wise to deliver a comprehensive range of eye care services for poor people.

In a simple ceremony held at the Civil Surgeon office of Gaya (Bihar), Dr. Ranjan Kumar, Civil Surgeon handed over the certificate to Mr. Sukanto Mete (Manager, LNJPEH-Kajha) in presence of Mr. Nalin Maurya (Dist. Coordinator) and Ms. Reena Kumari (Dist. MIS Coordinator) of AB PM-JAY.

Mr. Sukanto said that last year we offered treatment to around 35,000 eye patients and more than 8,000 patients got back their vision after Cataract surgeries at the hospital.

It’s significant that LNJPEH-Kajha has been receiving this honour continuously for the last two years.

Mr. Satish Girija as a Ni-Kshay Mitra

31 January 2023, Hazaribagh: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of Jharkhand through district administration of Hazaribagh has issued a Citation with Letter of Appreciation to Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) for his valuable contribution to the country’s fight against Tuberculosis as Ni-Kshay Mitra supporting to the Persons with TB undergoing treatment.

It’s noteworthy that Mr. Satish Girija has adopted 05 TB patients from very poor families at Rolla, Kesura and Baheri villages of Hazaribagh Sadar block and provides them nutritious food items every month as a small contribution to the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan.

In a function held at the assembly hall of collectorate, the Citation & the Letter of Appreciation to Mr. Satish Girija were received by Mr. Rajeev Kumar Singh (Programme Manager, NBJK) on his behalf. Mrs. Nancy Sahay (Deputy Commissioner, Hazaribagh) has handed over the same and praised the role of Ni-Kshay Mitras in elimination of TB from India.

It’s a pleasure that by ensuring community support, over 9.5 lakh tuberculosis patients have been adopted under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan.

Support School Children This Way Too!!

Amoli Apurva Primary School at village-Prajapat Nagar, Mangarh (Choupran, Hazaribagh) is one among eight schools being run by NBJK in rural areas of Jharkhand-Bihar. AAPS addresses the need of primary education for economically backward families from Prajapat Nagar and seven neighboring villages. This co-educational school is from class Nursery to Sixth and 175 students study here. Out of these children, 50 are sponsored and remaining pay a nominal fee.

Due to financial scarcity, AAPS lacks proper infrastructure and there were no ceiling-fans in the class-rooms. It was felt that during summer time classes become hot and inconvenient but because of fund constraints, the management couldn’t do anything.

Around a year back Dr Nand Kumar, his wife Mrs. Chanda Devi and family members have visited the school with Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK). They talked to the teachers-students and eventually Dr. Nand Kumar came to know about of the need of ceiling-fans in class-rooms. He took the issue seriously and assured to provide the fans soon.

Within two-three months of the visit, keeping his words Dr. Nand Kumar has donated 10 ceiling-fans to AAPS. Presently all the class-rooms of this school are equipped with fans. Now the children & teachers don’t face any trouble during summer days.

On behalf of the teaching, non-teaching staffs and students of Amoli Apurva Primary School, Prajapat Nagar, NBJK expresses sincere gratitude to Dr. Nand Kumar, his better half Mrs. Chanda Devi and their family members for this kind gesture.

Mass Fasting by Lok Samiti on Death Anniversary of Gandhi

30 January 2023, Patna: On Martyrdom Day of Mahatma Gandhi, Bihar State Lok Samiti has organized a mass fasting under the Gandhi statue at Gandhi Maidan, Patna.

This was attended by LS National President Mr. Girija Satish, Coordinator Mr. K. G. Azad, Treasurer Mr. Vinod Sharma, State General Secretary Mr. Shivji Singh, Secretary Mr. Sanwalia Giri, Women’s Lok Samiti Coordinator Mrs. Krani Rashosh, Mrs. Meena Devi, Mrs.Putul Kumari, Mrs. Manorama Devi, Mrs. Manti Verma, Mrs. Shalini Barla, Mrs. Sultan Parveen, Mr. Rahul, Mr. Ramavtar, Mr. James, Mr. Satyaprakash, Mr. Umashankar, Mr. Satyendra, Bihar Sarvodaya Mandal President Mr. Vinod Ranjan, Mr. Maqbul Ahmad, Mr. Subodh Pandey, Mr. Nadeem Khan, Mr. Upendra Kushwaha, Mr. Badal and other delegates from various districts of Bihar.

Mr. Girija Satish has presided the event and said that Bapu was always in favour of communal harmony and India is a secular country where we need to assimilate the Gandhian values of equal respect to all religions, mutual brotherhood, right of equality to women, development of all and freedom from superstition-liquor. He said that due to political reasons, the wind of discrimination and hatred is prevailing in the society, against which this program of Lok Samiti has been organized. Appealing to comply with the prohibition law in Bihar and cooperate with the awareness campaign in the villages, Mr. Girija Satish said that prohibition should be implemented in the entire country.

Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad said that this event is against fundamentalism and status quoism. Mr. Shivji Singh was conducting the programme.

In the evening, this collective fast was concluded by drinking juice from the hands of socialist leader Mr. Shivanand Tiwary who stressed on the propagation of Gandhian ideas. Also a tableau was displayed by the youths on this occasion.

Republic Day Celebrated at NBJK Branches & Organs

26 January 2023, Ranchi-Chanho-Khunti-Dumka-Deoghar-Giridih-Bodhgaya-Kajha: NBJK branch offices at Ranchi, Khunti, Patna, Bodhgaya, Project Offices of UTI Mutual Fund supported Mission Rozgar Training Centre-Giridih, HDFC Bank supported Holistic Rural Development Program-Chanho (Ranchi) and Units of LNJP Eye Hospital at Dumka, Deoghar, Kajha (Gaya) have celebrated 74th Republic Day ardently.

At Khunti, Murhu Nari Shakti Kisan Producer Company Limited, an FPO by tribal women promoted under NBJK run Lakhpati Kisan Smart Village program with CIni-Tata Trusts, has been honoured by the district administration for excellent work in the field of High Value Agriculture, Livestock Rearing and Minor Forestry.

At Bodhgaya, a health camp was organized under NBJK run SBI Sanjeevani Clinic on Wheels program with SBI Foundation and villagers including women-girls got checkup as well as medicines for anemia, blood pressure, diabetes etc.

At all the places, concerned managers or senior employees have hoisted national flag in presence of staffs and all have joined the chorus of Jana Gana Mana …

NBJK Celebrates 74th Republic Day Zestfully

26 January 2023, Hazaribagh: NBJK has celebrated 74th Republic Day of the nation enthusiastically. At co-ordination office, Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) unfurled national flag and addressed the gathering of staffs.

He talked on fundamental rights of citizens granted by the constitution and expressed concern over bullying of small countries by the big ones worldwide. Mentioning development, he said about people’s stake in the process and importance of their ideas. Mr. Girija Satish stressed over need of irrigation facility for farmers of Jharkhand and referred the speech by Hon. President of India on the eve of Republic Day. He praised her appeal to grow Millets as they require less water as well as provide high levels of nutrition. NBJK President appealed the people to run their families with democratic values to develop an egalitarian society and cautioned about rising trend of superstition, religious fanaticism, liquor consumption, women insecurity. The very concept of Gram Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi is still to be executed truly and we need to work towards that goal, he pointed out and extended best wishes to all.

On this occasion, Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) has explained about developmental strategy of NBJK with intervention in the areas of Eye Health Care, Covid pandemic, Disability, Livelihood, Education and Support to Small NGOs. He said that in last year the organization run LNJP Eye Hospitals put commendable effort for vision restoration of people with nearly 29000 Cataract surgeries, 4000 other surgeries and over 2 lakh OPD. About nationwide recognition of such endeavors, Mr. Satish Girija has cited for Bridgestone Mobility Social Impact Award and MGLB Disability Award to NBJK in 2022.

Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Program Director, NBJK) called for national unity and suggested to keep distance from communal hatred. He assured to make Hazaribagh district free from Cataract Blindness by October 2023.

Also Mr. Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJK) and Mrs. Supriya Suman (Guest) have wished all.

Eye Screening & Cataract Surgeries by Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital-Deoghar

24 January 2023, Giridih-Jamui-Deoghar: NBJK run Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital, Deoghar has organized 09 Outreach Screening & Cataract Camps at villages of Giridih and Jamui districts in Jharkhand-Bihar during 19-24 January.

In this period, SBI Foundation has supported the camps at Devpur Middle School, Nayadih Panchayat Bhawan, Sarebad Middle School in Sono block of Jamui district. With support of Naraindas Morbai Budhrani Trust, such camps held at Badadiha, Chongakhar, Tetaramo and Ambatand villages of Jamua, Birni & Dhanwar blocks of Giridh district while the people have availed same facility at Sightsavers supported Vision Centre at Bengabad block in Giridih district with total 09 screening events. In the meantime, many discharged patients have been provided follow up service at VRBEH.

Through these eye camps, VRBEH accessed rural communities with 304 OPD, detected 142 cases of Cataract, 23 cases of Refractive Error, 06 of Ptrygium, 02 of DCR and provided medicines to 24 eye patients. In Sono block of Jamui district, nos. of OPD & Cataract patients were comparatively high.

NMBT, Sightsavers and SBIF will sponsor all Cataract Surgeries at VRBEH, Deoghar.